According to the Marquette Mining Journal, Nguyen was hiking alone on the North Country Trail on Wednesday. She stopped about a half of a mile away from Grand Portal Point to take a selfie, when she fell about 200 feet off the cliff to Lake Superior.

Two kayakers witnessed the fall and were able to retrieve her and bring her to shore near Chapel Beach.

The journal reports a local kayak company then radioed in for paramedics but Nguyen was pronounced dead at the scene.